Hatching Brine Shrimp for Fish Food

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[@James_Hande]

I made my 3 bottle hatching setup out of soda bottles with CO2 caps. I start a bottle every day and do exactly as you. I bought a 16oz can of eggs from Brine Shrimp Direct and it's lasted me about a year now. I keep the eggs stored in the freezer. I recently have been decapsulating the eggs, no more shells sneaking through to the fry. Thanks for sharing Dan!

[@TMAquatics]

Nice to finally see another person hatching brine shrimp without an unnecessary light on the hatchery, and no additional heat, just ambient room light and temp. I hatch Brine shrimp similar to you, but I use water softener pellets and pickle jars. 👍

[@DansFish]

Thanks 👍

[@HoonAquatics]

I find daily feedings of baby brine shrimp are great for not only fry and juvenile fish but also readily taken by finicky eaters with small mouths and even sub-adult rainbowfish. It's liquid gold!

[@debhalld9794]

Great video! Takes the mystery and / or fear of the unknown away from hatching brine shrimp. 👍

[@peepslostsheep]

Livestream with Alex and Rachel, and then a new video from Dan? Awesome day!

[@snipethesnipers3532]

That was a great video. Super helpful. Thanks!

[@DansFish]

Glad to help!

[@lotsoffish]

You are spot on Dan, there is no hassle hatching shrimp, like you, I have hatched shrimp almost every day the last 37 years but one thing we should tell folks is THEY HAVE to have GOOD EGGS. I have seen so many people do everything right except for having GOOD EGGS give up on hatching shrimp. Do you hear me folks? Ask around and get some GOOD EGGS do NOT use some eggs that you bought off eBay cheap. Ask some breeders what brand is running top notch and then buy a can of them.

[@DansFish]

I guess I've always gotten lucky and had good eggs, because they always seem to hatch well for me.

[@r.b.animalsandmovies4186]

Great video Dan

[@drockingfish]

wow nice!!!

[@mirekt9521]

Good video, as always Dan!

[@AquariumFishEnthusiasts]

How about using an air stone so the air line doesn't get clogged?

[@atkinsnatureaquariums3552]

Awesome information, I had no clue about drying it out after rinsing, I just rinse and fill, add salt and eggs. But that extra step makes sense and I'm gonna make sure to dry it out for a while

[@alexcrowl]

In my experience temperature is the only variable that really affects hatch rate. If you can keep the solution above 75 degrees the hatch rate is a lot higher

[@toolkorn6669]

Just found you tonight with someone posting your Vodka video. Great video also. I love the way you detail everything. Glad i found you :-)

[@tnaqua5630]

Fantastic video dan loved it

[@DansFish]

Thank you very much!

[@scottcahala7779]

Great video. I don't know about the fridge. I have been doing it for over 20 years.

[@CrowntailHalfmoon]

Awesome advice Sir 👍 You mentioned that you put the baby brineshrimps in the fridge. I normally hatch 2 sets one for morning and afternoon feedings. My question is could i just do one hatching in morning and put the excess in a cup in the fridge to be used in the evening? Will they still be alive ? Reason for doing 2 hatchery is that the extra from morning batch don't last till evening when i siphon them out...

[@MrRenoman2011]

Great Video

[@RyanStonedonCanadianGaming]

I need a second brine shrimp hatchery so I can stop forgetting about my first one. 😅

[@gavogr69]

Noticed there was no Light over your BBS Hatchery do you not use one or did we just not see it during the video?

[@craigslade2766]

Thank you for the video Dan, great info. I am kind of new at hatching baby brine shrimp for fish food. The first half a dozen or so batches turned out great,my fish went nuts for them. I started a batch yesterday for today’s feeding,but something went wrong. The first sign of a problem was after the first 12 hours,a white foam began to appear in the corners( I’m using a Ziss hatchery.)of the Hatcher. Then I noticed after about another 6hours, the water turned to a cloudy mixer, kind of Orangeman in color. After 24 hours had passed, I aimed a light I’ve been using at the base of the unit, like usual, but the normal separation of the baby brine shrimp did not happen. Any thoughts Dan, or anyone? I always cleaned the container after each use, but I didn’t use any bleach for disinfecting. I watched quite a few videos of people using the Ziss brine shrimp hatchery, and none of them did any disinfecting.

[@kelleyforeman]

Thanks for the video! I just bought a fancy pants bribe shrimp hatchery but I haven’t used it yet!

[@meegssan5716]

What if you mix the the salt before hand and then just add salt water

[@CooperAquatics]

👍🔥do you have channel/logo stickers getting everyone's gonna do something cool

[@razzledazzle8948]

Melt the salt in warm water then add it. 😂

[@kindallnight1615]

Here i am

[@Bumpa1962]

Why not disolve the salt first..?

[@genxjason]

Lens needs a wipe. Second video with spots. Love your videos!

[@DansFish]

Yes indeed. We filmed the puffer vid and the first day of this bbs vid the same day...didn't notice the spots until we went in to edit everything. What can I say, we run a real pro operation 'round here :)

[@MegaMindyLou]

If you’re not in a tie dye shirt, I can hardly recognize you. 🤣😘

[@CoffeeTimeBrian11]

Brine shrimp are trully an animal science fiction can't even match and they're tasty little morsles for all predator fish. I just use the same airline to drain them on filter paper. How much money did the comic book "sea monkey" guy make?.

[@empressdowagerxuan7757]

You havent responded to my email

[@DansFish]

Ruby, if you emailed about the wild type bettas under the name Uri, I've responded to every one of your emails, but they bounce back with a message that says they are undeliverable because your account is unable to receive mail. I just forwarded all the emails to your kind all night address....hope that works!

[@empressdowagerxuan7757]

@@DansFish who?

[@empressdowagerxuan7757]

Wait i asked about the croaking gouramis

[@DansFish]

Oh, sorry. Got you confused. I have not received any emails about the gouramis. Checked spam folder and everything. Please resend to [e-mail].

[@reelthing4u]

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